The original track features the character “Yellow Dancer”, who’s real name is Lt Lance Belmont, a pilot that was a part of the first attack wing that attempted to liberate the Earth from the Invid. Lt Lance Belmont took the name “Yellow Dancer” and passed himself off as a female singer to avoid capture by the Invid. In this episode the freedom fighters use Yellow Dancer’s performance as a cover for the freedom fighters to raid the protoculture storage. Yellow Dancer performs a song called “The Sky is Falling”

Here is our Cybernetic-Apocalyptic-Nu-Disco cover of that song, featuring our very own Mathias on vocals!

CLICK on the image below for the free download. Enjoy!

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Click on the image below to download the remix:

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Here is a free download of that stuff … Enjoy!

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Last night I was talking with the BF about throwing a bear dance called “A-bear-tion” The theme of the party will be red. Red and pink streamers will be hanging from the ceiling along with teddy bears hanging from wire hangers. We are hoping to get sponsored by Planned Parenthood for publicity and hopefully protesters. Wouldn’t that be awesome?

I’m kidding of course.

However, it was still good to reconnect with my old band mate. With the man that originally believed in me and my music and who helped me with all of the resources he had at the time. He helped SpekrFreks become what we are today. I will always be grateful for that, no matter what had transpired between us in the end of our partnership. I mean c’mon, the man helped me produce “SanFrandisco” for heaven’s sake! And that track is still opening doors for us!

I live for moments like these. Moments where life comes full circle.

Now SpekrFreks are ready to continue on and keep rockin’ that electro shit.

Our first assignment was to remix a new single by the band Relentless. We made a sort of electro-disco-80’s type of remix. It will be coming out in September.

Tonight we will be going to the San Francisco Minna Art Gallery to hang out with the Bacon Wave boy’s Relentless and Mephisto Odyssey @ their brand new Monthly party “SMUG”.

SMUG will be featuring some of San Francisco’s finest up and coming Electro acts. We will be DJing there in the next couple of months.

Over and out.

Scientists have found that listening to just 50 minutes of uplifting dance music not only increases the levels of antibodies in your body, but it decreases your levels of stress hormones, which can weaken the immune system.

It gets even better, though. The researchers, from Sussex University and the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, say their findings demonstrate how dance music could be used to help aid patients’ recovery while in hospital.

They found that playing music while a patient was under anesthetic during an operation helped to lower the levels of harmful stress hormones.

“We think the pleasant state that can be induced by music leads to special physiological changes which eventually lead to stress reduction or direct immune enhancement,” said Dr Ronny Enk, a neurocognition expert at the Max Planck Institute. “Stress reduction probably plays an important role, but the stress reducing effect seems to be different for various types of music.”

The researchers tested 300 people, asking them to listen to 50 minutes of happy, joyful dance music or to a random collection of tones (the stuff I usually listen to).

They found:

* People that listened to dance music had significantly lower levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, compared to a control group.
* After listening, the levels of the antibody immunoglobin A, the immune system’s first line of defense, were heightened.

“Listening to music in hospitals might show benefits for patients and may for example lead to shorter recovery times,” added Enk.

So next time you’re sick, remember that a dose of dance music could do your body some good.

Then Lazy Bear 2007 came and my band was booked to DJ for KUMA. It was amazing. Although the dance club was small, it was packed wall to wall with people dancing all night. Good times. After that I had my fill. I was happy that I got to DJ for a bunch of sexy people and I really had no desire to DJ for Lazy Bear or even attend Lazy Bear again.

Then some friends from KUMA called me a few months ago. They asked if we would DJ again. I was reluctant at first, but then they offered to pay us our going rate and to meet some of the demands in our contract. They really wanted us to DJ. So I said “Sure, why not.”

Well then something interesting happened. A month into the process the party promoter changed from a KUMA event to a Yoshi-Mac event. Now the promoter for Yoshi-Mac, whom I like to refer to as “Hotlanta” was running the party. Hotlanta and I have a little bit of history together, we met at IBR 2007 and got pretty well acquainted. So of course we are very friendly toward each other. Well, Mr. Hotlanta calls me to tell me that the party is no longer KUMA, it’s HIS party now, and he still really wants SpekrFreks to DJ.

At this point, I feel a little guilty. I was doing this gig as a favor to my KUMA boys. The KUMA boys really helped us out in the beginning of our DJ days so I will always feel obliged to them. But SpekrFreks is a business. Yoshi-Mac was offering more amenities and better accommodations to us than KUMA. The pay is good and Hotlanta is my friend too. I couldn’t say no. Of course I told him that as a stipulation we would be booking our favorite DJ; DJ Luvsik, to open up for us.

I feel sad. Part of me wishes this was still a KUMA event, but oh well. Business is business and SpekrFreks are DJ whores. So here we are again, DJ’ing for Lazy Bear 2008. SpekrFreks and DJ Luvsik.

It’s gonna be nuts.

The distribution of the internet has categorized music in a way that was never really thought of before. This truly applies to Electronica. The category of Electronica itself includes many different sub-genres. This of course is all a matter of opinion with some tracks. But many tracks are distinct enough to fall under their specific genre.

I recently read an article by Robert Rich which goes into more detail about the state of music today due to advances in technology and internet distribution. Now anyone can start up a label (of course it’s easier when you have connections). Most people can run their own music business easier than ever before.

So artistically speaking, my question here is: what is this newfound technology truly doing to the sound of music. Are we expanding? Are we plateauing? Or are we just dancing?

Sometimes I wonder because I cannot stop enjoying the most “futuristic and electric” of sounds. I cannot get enough of this evergrowing trend called “Electro.” This is all I want to produce and listen to. This is all I ever want to hear.

Where does that leave me?

This blog will be about music and the pursuit of electro, dance, and house.

Enjoy

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